John Dalton, F.R.S.: Member of the French Institute; Hon. D. C. L. Oxon.; LL. D. Edin.; President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester &c. &cG. Routledge and sons, 1874 - 320 pages |
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... Higgins . A few words on some of the chiefs may be offered here , whilst a passing remark is due to Benjamin Franklin , the printer , for his revealing a new phase of electricity that excited the attention of the philosophic intellects ...
... Higgins . A few words on some of the chiefs may be offered here , whilst a passing remark is due to Benjamin Franklin , the printer , for his revealing a new phase of electricity that excited the attention of the philosophic intellects ...
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... Higgins , Richter , and others , whose names will appear as claimants to the doctrines expounded by Dalton , were in the * In reference to the fate of Lavoisier , one is tempted to exclaim , in the words of the noble Madame Roland on ...
... Higgins , Richter , and others , whose names will appear as claimants to the doctrines expounded by Dalton , were in the * In reference to the fate of Lavoisier , one is tempted to exclaim , in the words of the noble Madame Roland on ...
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... Higgins . The Abbé Boscovich , in his work on Natural Phi- losophy , in 1759 , gave the fullest expression to the dynamical theory of matter . According to Dr Daubeny ( " Atomic Theory , " p . 34 ) — " Boscovich supposes that matter is ...
... Higgins . The Abbé Boscovich , in his work on Natural Phi- losophy , in 1759 , gave the fullest expression to the dynamical theory of matter . According to Dr Daubeny ( " Atomic Theory , " p . 34 ) — " Boscovich supposes that matter is ...
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... Higgins " ( to whom allusion will presently be made ) , but much simpler and more elegant . " I have no doubt , " continues Dr Smith , " that all similar diagrams published in London by Dr Fordyce , & c . , were derived from the same ...
... Higgins " ( to whom allusion will presently be made ) , but much simpler and more elegant . " I have no doubt , " continues Dr Smith , " that all similar diagrams published in London by Dr Fordyce , & c . , were derived from the same ...
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... Higgins of London was a man of parts , and , judging from a pamphlet proposing a course of lectures , in Nov. 1775 ... Higgins ' writings to indicate that he had formed any correct idea of definite compounds . “ Dr Higgins thinks of ...
... Higgins of London was a man of parts , and , judging from a pamphlet proposing a course of lectures , in Nov. 1775 ... Higgins ' writings to indicate that he had formed any correct idea of definite compounds . “ Dr Higgins thinks of ...
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Page 265 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
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Page 211 - Now it is one great object of this work, to show the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple elementary particles which constitute one compound particle, and the number of less compound particles which enter into the formation of one more compound particle.
Page 180 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 158 - I am nearly persuaded that the circumstance depends upon the weight and number of the ultimate particles of the several gases : Those whose particles are lightest and single being least absorbable and the others more according as they increase in weight and complexity.
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Page 211 - But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies might have been inferred, from which their number and weight in various other compounds would appear, in order to assist and to guide future investigations, and to correct their results.
Page 293 - Thus it appears that there are two oxalates of strontian, the first obtained by saturating oxalic acid with strontian water, the second by mixing together oxalate of ammonia and muriate of strontian. It is remarkable that the first contains Just double the proportion of base contained in the second.